SCLC

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SCLC SNCC
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Founding of SCLC

• Founded in 1957
• Two main objectives
• Use non-violence as a way to resist
  discrimination
• Appeal to the moral conscience of all Americans
• founded by Martin Luther King, Ralph Abernathy,
  Fred Shuttlesworth, Bayard Rustin, and others
• founded after the bus boycott in Montgomery,
  Alabama

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Events

• Poor People's Campaign when they believed
  poverty was the cause of inner city violence.
  Started in late 1960s.
• Albany Movement desegregation of Albany, GA.
  Used petitions and voter-registrations which
  helped form the movement
• Birmingham campaign desegregate downtown
  Birmingham by use of sit-ins
• March on Washington political rally, jobs,
  justice, and peace. MLK I have a dream speech
• Grenada Freedom Movement within days of the
  movement, 1300 blacks register to vote. Used
  voter-registration drives

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Poor Peoples Campaign

• It really doesn't matter what happens now....
  some began to... talk about the threats that were
  out  what would happen to me from some of our
  sick white brothers.... Like anybody, I would
  like to live a long life. Longevity has its
  place, but I'm not concerned about that now. I
  just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me
  to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over,
  and I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get
  there with you. But I want you to know tonight,
  that we, as a people, will get to the Promised
  Land. And so I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried
  about anything. I'm not fearing any man. My eyes
  have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.
• - MLK

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Leaders

• Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1957 - 1968
• Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy 1968 - 1977
• Rev. Joseph E. Lowery 1977 - 1997
• Mr. Martin L. King, III 1997 - 2004
• Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth February 2004 - November
  2004
• Mr. Charles Steele, Jr. November 2004 - Present

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SCLC Today

• Still in existence today
• Nation wide organization
• Made up of specific chapters
• Help all Americans, not just blacks

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Pictures
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Formation of SNCC

• Feb. 1, 1960
• Group of black college students
• North Carolina AT University
• Refused to leave Woolworths white lunch counter
  because denied service
• Sparked wave of sit-ins in college towns across
  South

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SNCC

• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
• Shaw University, Raleigh, NC
• Coordinated sit-ins
• Supported leaders
• Publicized activities

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Sit-ins

• First sit-in
• Woolworths store
• Greensboro, NC
• Received little reaction
• By next morning, many students were recruited
• Inspired many other sit-ins in other cities such
  as Hampton, Raleigh, Charlotte, and Fayetteville
• By end of April, sit-ins reached every southern
  state and attracted 50,000 students or more

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Leaders of SNCC

• John Lewis
• Influential SNCC leader
• Joined in Freedom Rights
• Key-note speaker at the March of Washington
• Led 525 marchers across Pettus Bridge in Selma,
  Alabama
• 1981- Elected to first official government office
  as an ATL City Council member

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Leaders of SNCC (cont)

• Stokeley Carmichael
• Introduced NAG (Nonviolent Action Group) to SNCC
• Later became a field organizer for SNCC and led
  voter registration drives in Mississippi
• 1966- Elected chairman of SNCC
• Black Power
• Changed his name to Kwame Ture and moved to Africa

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The end of SNCC

• Late 1960s, SNCC was unable to organize civil
  rights protests
• 1967- Hubert Rap Brown elected as new chairman
• Advocacy of military brought SNCC under FBI
  surveillance leading to the disbandment in 1970

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Timeline of SNCC
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Bibliography

• Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC).
  17 Apr. 2009 lthttp//www.sclcnational.org/net/cont
  ent/page.aspx?s25461.0.12.2607gt.
• Andrews, Mark, Scott Griffin, Mark Monaco, and
  Mark Pawluk. "SNCC 1960-1966 Six years of the
  Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee." North
  Carolina _at_ibiblio. 17 Apr. 2009
  lthttp//www.ibiblio.org/sncc/index.htmlgt.